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28 August 2013

Read Facebook Global Requests Report India USA accessed thousands of Facebook Users data
Facebook released its first-ever transparency report on Tuesday, detailing the number of times governments around the world asked for information on its users and how many times the social networking company gave the data to government

The "Global Requests Report" covers the first six months of 2013 until June 30 and reveals that 71 countries requested data on 37,954 to 38,954 users.

U.S. government made a total of only 10,854 requests for Facebook user data, involving a total of 17,061 users, of which Facebook released some data in 78% of the cases.
In effect, the U.S. government received user information on merely 8,466 requests

Indian government made the third highest number of requests for user data in the world after the U.S. and Turkey, accounting for a total of 3,246 requests involving 4,177

First Global Government Requests Report, which details the following:

The report details the following:

1)Which countries requested information from Facebook about our users

2)The number of requests received from each of those countries

3)The number of users/user accounts specified in those requests

4)The percentage of these requests in which we were required by law to disclose at least some data

Below is the complete First Global Government Requests Report releases by Facebook

Country Name - Total Requests – Users accounts requested – percentage data produced